Electrical System Protection Engineer (Engineer 1 - Senior Engineer)

Job Summary
This position is responsible for analyzing, designing, and monitoring electrical protection and control systems for transmission, generation, and distribution equipment to ensure optimum operational security, safety, reliability, and overall system integrity which minimizes the probability of system outages and ultimately preserves the delivery of electrical energy to customers.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

Electric System Protection Engineer I

• Assists in analyzing and developing protective relay settings, relay coordination, short circuit, load flow, or impact studies as well as other various protection system studies of transmission, generation and distribution facilities to predict, analyze and verify performance under various operating situations
• Assists in preparing protective relay equipment specifications, settings coordination, control / logic schemes for implementation in the field
• Reviews system events and faults with other departments or entities to identify
• protection system issues
• Reviews expansion or replacement projects to ensure compatibility with existing and future protection system design
• Responds to customer requests regarding facility / load additions that may include

protection system analysis, planning, and coordination studies which result in protective system changes.

• Performs Arc Flash analysis and other protective equipment support for field engineers or personnel
• Produces work products that adhere to NERC reliability standards through established processes
• Attends applicable seminars, conferences, and training to stay informed and relevant in industry practices

Electric System Protection Engineer II

All duties and responsibilities performed as an Engineer I plus:

• Proficiently analyzes and develops protective relay settings, relay coordination, short circuit, load flow, or impact studies as well as other various protection system studies of transmission, generation and distribution facilities to predict, analyze and verify performance under various operating situations
• Proficiently prepares protective relay equipment specifications, settings coordination, control / logic schemes for implementation in the field
• Proficiently determines accurate coordination of protective devices with any internal or external entities at points where there is a change in ownership or responsibility.
• Proficiently determines improvements or appropriate corrective actions following event analysis
• Develops and performs maintenance of system modeling and databases for transmission, generation and distribution assets
• Performs peer reviews of associate engineer’s work products as assigned by department lead

Electric System Protection Engineer III

All duties and responsibilities performed as an Engineer I & II plus:

• Research, propose, develop, test, and implement new or improved protective relay scheme design standards using innovative design approaches available to the electrical utility industry
• Provide subject matter expert support on best practices and approaches to ensure that proper protection techniques are being utilized and implemented internally as well as externally if external entity facilities are impacting
• Acts as a subject matter expert for associated NERC reliability standards by developing process controls and participating in internal compliance adherence processes as well as compliance audits
• Maintains engineering proficiency through participating in industry reliability / protection forums or organizations
   

Electric System Protection Senior Engineer

All duties and responsibilities performed as an Engineer I, II, & III plus:

• Provide guidance to fellow engineers on technical matters. Make required decisions based on sound technical judgement
• Lead specific technical projects by assigning duties to group members and ensuring

work completed meets highest quality

• Represent group at internal/external meetings, forums, etc. Share key takeaways and offer suggestions for decisions to be made
• Analyze areas for process improvement. Gather stakeholder input and implement

improvements by effective communication and follow-ups

Required Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Required for Selection:

• Must have the ability to use personal computers and use associated engineering software.
• Must have working knowledge of Microsoft office.
• Must understand the operation of high voltage power systems and equipment and can evaluate system performance.
• Must have the ability to evaluate power system performance.
• Must have working knowledge of power system sy